Your Rarest Locomotive Sighting

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by UPTRAIN

Utah Railway F45 9013 at Granite City, Illinois.

You know the Shell oil refinery in Hartford, IL? Once I saw several Utah Ry. engines on what I guess was a ready track; kind of odd to see that many locomotives from a regional line several states away...

My rarest sighting of all things would be a KCS SD45T-2, tells you I haven't seen a whole lot, doesn't it...[;)]

[Anonymous]

Just today an H1 BNSF B40-8 behind a UP SD70M on a Manifest coming through Blair.
Oh boy more & more BNSF Power is becoming around here[:)].
I tell you what that BNSF Power sure looks good with the UP Yellow......Damn good looking Power.
Oh one more thing......It sure would be nice to see a UP & a BN C30-7......Like Ha Ha.

[mustanggt]

I saw 2 MBTA budd rdc's on a spur in somerville, mass. They've been there for ever!

[Anonymous]

Illinois Northern s alco S-4(?) dead in the bn yard at western ave/ in the mid 70s road was a small switching line on chicagos west side ATSF took over and now is some kind of shortline with an sw-1200 for power

[edbenton]

for me it would have to be ATSF 7200 the only SF30b ever made close second though would have been 6936 the big DD40x on the old SP between Sanata Rosa and Vaughn NM in 1997 only engine on the trains pulling roughly 75 cars not a bad sight though[2c][:D]

[espeefoamer]

I saw the EMD demo set of GP-35 DD35-DD35-GP-35 in EMDs red & white demo colors.I also saw two SD-45 demos on an SP freight.Saw an NW-5 in Portland.

[mudchicken]

San Luis Southern d-500 or a whole flock of ex-BN NW-5's in Eastern Colorado in service (Kind of EMD's answer to the RS-1)....

[AlcoRS11Nut]

A CN GMD 1, CF7, ALCo C430.

(really want to see an ALCo RS-27)

[philnrunt]

Saw the Amtrak Turbo Train in Richmond, In, way back when, saw 8 brand new GE's for NdeM (pretty!!) on NW line outside of Muncie ,In. also back in the 70's, an EMD re-engined Alco RS at ConRail yard in Marion, In, and 2 small steam engines on flat cars on Penn Central in Anderson In.
Nowadays, you just don't see as many oddballs. Well, I mean oddball engines. Too bad.

[UPTRAIN]

Utah Railway F45 9013 at Granite City, Illinois.

[Randy Stahl]

Today a pair of SD-45s rolled onto my service tracks. Not that unusual.. exept that they were'nt WCs one CEFX in UP paint and one SP #8648 bloody nose, speed lettering etc.
Randy

[Anonymous]

Wildwood Florida, in 1960, on the Seaboard Airline, I photographed a train leaving the yard with four Baldwin centipedes on the point. For the benefit of you younger members, the Baldwin centipede was a monster covered wagon with two 8 cylinder 3000 hp engines under the hood and a 2-d-d-2 (4-8-8-4) wheel arrangement, 96 wheels in all. Considering the reliability of these notorious units, two were probably adequate for the train while two more were neened for redundancy.

[Paul Milenkovic]

Driving on Hwy 41 alongside what-used-to-be the Wisconsin Central line through Appleton, WI, I have seen a B-B road switcher labeled "GEC-Alstom." Is this just a leasing arrangement of a conventional North American loco, is this some kind of European exotic, or is it one of these repowering deals?

[Anonymous]

I think that my rarest sighting would have to be UP 144 a General Electric B23-7 from what I can gather. I think that this might actually be the same engine that was pictured in Trains June '04 pgs. 46&47. The date on that picture is 1968. You can e-mail me if you want to see a picture that I took of it.

That whole consist was odd. I think that it was a power move since there were eight engines on a train of perhaps 25 cars. It was also in this consist that I saw the only CSX engine (#7711) that I have ever seen in Denver.

Scott

[Paul3]

Oh, probably the X2000 electrics that Amtrak borrowed for a short while (only two, one on each end, were ever in the Western hemasphere).

I did see a Conrail "Super 7" U-boat some time ago on a local switcher. I remember being quite shocked at seeing EMD blombergs under a GE loco.

The rarest production locos I have seen are the HHP-8's on the NEC. I think there is only a dozen of these...

Paul A. Cutler III
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Weather Or No Go New Haven
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[Anonymous]

The rarest locomotive i have ever seen is Kalamazoo, Lake Shore, and Chicago CF7 at Omnitrex shops at the old Chicago, West Pullman and Southen yard in southern Chicago. Not that it was a rare locomotive, just the fact it was there seeing as KLSC went belly up a quite a while before. And the line from Hartford, Michigan to Paw Paw was sold to Pioneer Rail Corp.

[Anonymous]

Cr C32-8 Ballast Express Grey

A pair of Reading F units At one of Conrails Railfest

[Anonymous]

when i was a kid, the emd experimental electric went through here on the conrail (ex-P&E) line to indianapolis. I can't remember off-hand which one it was (according to the diesel spotters guide, there were two) , but it was the one with the custom underframe (emd 10 , i believe) - there were a lot of strange, rare sightings on that line (ex-EL units, Southern high-hood GP30), too bad I was too young to be good with a camera to capture a lot of them!!!!

[BaltACD]

The B&O's 44 ton GE used on the job that switched up and down Pratt Street in Baltimore at night.....quite a sight to be where the Harbor Place complex currently stands with a GE 44 Ton switching on the Pratt Steet job and on an adjacent track the Light Street job switching other industrys with an EMD SW-1.....long gone days(nights).

[locomutt]

I've seen afew,but the ones that stick in my mind,
are several L&N/Family Lines BQ's,and around 1972 a couple of
Whitcomb diesels around Columbia,S.C.

[Anonymous]

back in 1995, i've caught an odd-looking locomotive it was a cross between a... a GP b-unit the cab instead of placeing the cab outside, it looked as if the body was recycled. it belonged to LORAM. note: the body of this unit looked like a GP20 with an flat nose, sounded like an GP9, no cab instead looked like the body was re-modeled er, kit bashed [%-)]. one day (as i normally wait at a crossing, a group of E8's from Conrail speeds by. 4020,4021and 4022 with it OCS train. those first generation movers where SCREAMING that was the best part[^] sadly NS and CSX retired the E-units heard the news i was not too pleased [:(!][V][banghead]

[traingeek087]

BNSF 9297.

[corwinda]

QUOTE: Originally posted by bnsfkline

What is the rarest locomotive that YOU have seen? Mine is an Ex SP GP40P-2, ex SP GP40X

I've seen those, but I think my rarest sighting was the BN NW5 in a Tacoma scrap line back in the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Dear Sirs,


Altho' an Abortion, one of those EMD Repowered NYC Lima Roadswitchers at Philadelphia in the Sixties. At THAT TIME there were more PAs, Ss, HHs, Sharks, F-Ms, Baldwins and Straight Limas Operating, so a Repowered One, and a Roadswitcher, was not common.


Saw a Centre Cab Baldwin from the Passenger Train to Chicago near Gary? Indiana a week before Amtrak. Also a Scarce thing. Repowered too??

[espeefoamer]

the rarest loco I ever saw operating was a high hood ALCo switcher working an industry in Longview, Washington.This loco is now in a museum in Snoqualmie,WA. The rarest I ever saw,were two,of only three built,ALCo diesel hydraulics on the dead line in Roseville.
I once saw on the SP, An A-B-B-B-B-B-B-A set of F7s on a cab hop. That's 8 units![:D]

[Noah Hofrichter]

I guess you could say the WSOR SD20's as there aren't a whole lot of SD20's around, at least I don't think, and also a former CNW operation lifesaver unit on a train last week in Wisconsin Dells.

Noah

[Anonymous]

I've seen some CR and NS/CR patch C32-8's, the rarest paint schemes I've seen are the NS Operation Lifesaver C40-9W's.

[Randy Stahl]

ALCO RS1 , just passing through dead in consist, could'nt resist riding on it, at least I didn't try buying it!!!

[Anonymous]

The rarest one I've seen operating was CSX B23-7R 3185 in Palmer, Mass. Only two left on the roster now.

[Anonymous]

Mine would have to be BNSF SD60M 9297. The one with two different paint schemes, one for each side of the loco. It was in the lead of a coal train through Wayzata, MN a couple years back